"Trent Moorehead" wrote in message
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Not much, that's why the waitpeople depend on tips. If you
don't tip for decent service, you're being cheap.

It seems to me that patrons have to tip because the *restaurant*
employers are being cheap, and not paying a decent wage.

Tips have become "expected", regardless of quality of service,
as an additional surcharge.

I worked retail for 5 years, and never got tipped once (nor
did I expect it, that is not the customers' responsibility, IMO).
OTOH, cooks don't get tips, but servers do. What's fair
about that?

No, put the bill for the wages where they belong... on the
*employer*.

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